Re: CVE Request: AWS s2n

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 07/14/2015 04:03 PM, Markus Vervier wrote:
> On 14.07.2015 17:48, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > Reminder: Client mode is disabled and won't be enabled until X509 validation is ready. But we
> can still make improvements and fixes in the meantime.
> > so I'm not sure this needs a CVE as the code is not yet enabled.
> Hi Kurt,
>
> that is a valid point from you and not for me to decide.
> Yet with default settings a binary is compiled (bin/s2nc) which will
> work in client mode when environment variable S2N_ENABLE_CLIENT_MODE=1
> is set (as documented). So it is possible several people were tempted to
> use s2n in client mode already as the client mode code is actually
> compiled into the lib and useable by default.
> I guess it depends on your definition of "enabled".
>
> Markus

Ah, I didn't know that, Mitre I'm leaving this one up to you (way to
much of a gray area for me to even poke with a stick).


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